{"product_id":"white-space-jennifer-de-leon-9781625345677","title":"White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, \u0026 Writing","description":"Sometime in her twenties, Jennifer De Leon asked herself, \"What would you do if you just gave yourself permission?\" While her parents had fled Guatemala over three decades earlier when the country was in the grips of genocide and civil war, she hadn't been back since she was a child. She gave herself permission to return--to relearn the Spanish that she had forgotten, unpack her family's history, and begin to make her own way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alternately honest, funny, and visceral, this powerful collection follows De Leon as she comes of age as a Guatemalan-American woman and learns to navigate the space between two worlds. Never rich or white enough for her posh college, she finds herself equally adrift in her first weeks in her parents' home country. During the years to follow, she would return to Guatemala again and again, meet ex-guerrillera and genocide survivors, get married in the old cobblestoned capital of Antigua, and teach her newborn son about his roots.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer de Leon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1625345674\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625345677\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/18\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/26\/2021","brand":"Jennifer de Leon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050111693055,"sku":"9781625345677","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_868ae23c-5044-4db9-ba56-6a05407b78e4.jpg?v=1685005290","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/white-space-jennifer-de-leon-9781625345677","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}